Education is a commodity

[BlackBaron]

At present, if education is taken only for the purpose of obtaining a certificate, then there is no real value in that education. Educational institutions make so many rules that a student has to pass the academic period by following those rules. Educational institutions are made in such a way that money plays the main role. Only those who are rich in the society get the opportunity to pursue higher education. Education has now become a form of business. Only obtaining a degree is the main purpose of higher education. But I do not think that this education is of much use in the workplace. If educational institutions provide real education, then students can move forward in all areas of life with their education.

Education teaches a lot apart from the certificate you are going to get in the university, there are probably some other life lessons you are going to learn, you are going to learn from literally a lot of things and while most people are going to the university, they have their different purpose for doing that, some wants to obtain the certificate to enable them get a job in the company of their interest while some also want to know more about some areas of life and nature, to be able to also impact same knowledge to others.

And there are also those who are just playing around, aiming for a diploma as proof of their higher education, while gaining nothing in the way of knowledge and skills. This is something I regret, and it happens frequently, because so many people want to pursue higher education but are financially unable. Meanwhile, those who can afford it are just playing around.

Not everyone has the privilege of continuing their education at university, even if they are truly passionate about learning. So if we, or anyone else, are in a situation where we can afford it, we must make the most of it.

[goldkingcoiner]

Education is considered a right of every citizen. But has education ever been accessible? Back then only the elite was able to study. Only a few have been able to read and be considered educated. If you are wealthy you can study and even though now education has become more accessible the truth is still only the wealthy can get highest quality of education. But now schools are selling education. They are promoting the culture and prestige of their schools.

Because the truth is there usually are generalizations when it comes to these prestigious schools. For example, Harvard. Someone from harvard would be idolized and thought of someone who is intelligent and probably has a lot of connections. Harvard sells. When you get into these prestigious schools, more than education, you are also paying for the name of the school. But why are we paying for education? To make more money. Education is an investment wherein we expect huge returns after graduation.

Everything now is done with the purpose of making more money in the future. Are there people who go to school just simply wanting to learn? No. Most of the time, students consider the profit they will be making and the job they can get with the degrees they will get.

Education used to be a guarded thing.

The poor could not possibly hope to obtain the opportunity to learn nor the access to books. But this happened many years ago, there is absolutely no excuse for a lack of education, even in a third world country. The lack of opportunity is a different issue, however...

Making money is easier for the educated, but when they have the right education.

[LOVER BOY 422]

Education is not longer what will know as education, everything has changed,the circle is not longer the same as before we use to hear it before,now education has another dimension, people who learn skills is more preferable and profitable than the ones who has pass education,they are making the help and hope of a common man to look asive they are nothing, people pass alot of pain and endurance to pass education then after it ,no job

Having a nice hand work is more preferable than education, apart from having a good head ,their is nothing they are doing in school,I prefer skill ,skill is more important and interesting knowledgeable than this education,is almost the same thing that will have a skill personal and someone who is educated,the both still have ability to do a work.

Some time the skill person will even do more than someone who is educated,in most cases.

[Oshio-man]

I agree with you that education is a commodity because many schools are advertising their schools to make sure they get the numbers of students they want to admit into the school, after admission students will start paying school fees for the school management to start generating funds from the school and before funds will be coming, management will make sure there are standards teachers, good environment, standard security and good equipments in the school before wealthy children will be bringing their children for admission, not only the wealthy children that got educated from school, even the poor school these days got educated but school are very expensive these days for majority of poor children to attend standards school.

[bakasabo]

I understand that it is hard to achieve, but it would be better if education would be more up-to-date. I understand that it is impossible to release new schoolbooks every few years. But study with books that are 10-15 years old is something not good. Books look fresh and new, but information there isnt modern. "Alex has bought an apple. Train goes from point A to point B". I understand why children today find school boring. Because it is not modern. Replace text with "Alex has bought 1 Bitcoin". Delivery goes from restaurant to your house". Adjust study to what children are used today and children will study better, be more interested in it. Maybe that will end "buy diploma by splitting bills into 9-12 years" (years spend in school).

[suhadi88]

I understand that it is hard to achieve, but it would be better if education would be more up-to-date. I understand that it is impossible to release new schoolbooks every few years. But study with books that are 10-15 years old is something not good. Books look fresh and new, but information there isnt modern. "Alex has bought an apple. Train goes from point A to point B". I understand why children today find school boring. Because it is not modern. Replace text with "Alex has bought 1 Bitcoin". Delivery goes from restaurant to your house". Adjust study to what children are used today and children will study better, be more interested in it. Maybe that will end "buy diploma by splitting bills into 9-12 years" (years spend in school).

  Nice joke... you're right, and the text is interesting. Of course, even if you encourage them to think, at least their thinking will be critical because they only listen to the news and scroll through their social media pages every day.

The idea is interesting, but their school curriculum seems to have rules regarding economics. If it were already included, that would be very interesting, but even if it's early, it's not appropriate to go there too early.

[Cheema02]

At present, if education is taken only for the purpose of obtaining a certificate, then there is no real value in that education. Educational institutions make so many rules that a student has to pass the academic period by following those rules. Educational institutions are made in such a way that money plays the main role. Only those who are rich in the society get the opportunity to pursue higher education. Education has now become a form of business. Only obtaining a degree is the main purpose of higher education. But I do not think that this education is of much use in the workplace. If educational institutions provide real education, then students can move forward in all areas of life with their education.

todays education system and its true that most people  getting knowledge to for getting certificated. Mostly institude should focous on meaningful learning but they focus on fees and attendance. In our school system after spending few years a student only memorized theories but the actual thing to learn is practical skills. Ane also hihger schools becomes more expensive and a poor person can not afford it . So many people just earn degrees and have no practical skills so they struggled to get jobs. So the learning point is that institute should focous to give practical trainings so the students Contribute there country through there skills.

[JoyMarsha]

Funny enough, attending a costly school doesn't guarantee one's success in life more than those who attend a less costly school. Being successful in life is not about the school one attended, because that school can't provide or have a job already waiting for a person before or after their graduation.

As we can tell, the reason why we go to school is for us to be impacted with knowledge, and the values that will help us in succeed in life. Any other aspect like attending to any financial heights in life is on us to achieve that, irrespective of the school attended.

[HONDACD125]

I understand that it is hard to achieve, but it would be better if education would be more up-to-date. I understand that it is impossible to release new schoolbooks every few years. But study with books that are 10-15 years old is something not good. Books look fresh and new, but information there isnt modern. "Alex has bought an apple. Train goes from point A to point B". I understand why children today find school boring. Because it is not modern. Replace text with "Alex has bought 1 Bitcoin". Delivery goes from restaurant to your house". Adjust study to what children are used today and children will study better, be more interested in it. Maybe that will end "buy diploma by splitting bills into 9-12 years" (years spend in school).

The reason why children are given examples of things like Apple and other similar objects is because their brains can process that easily, and they will understand what they are studying, but if you replace that with Bitcoin or some other object that the kids don't even know anything about, that will only confuse them, and you can't explain Bitcoin to children in 1st or 2nd class, because they can't process such things at that age, and we shouldn't force them to do that at all, so I don't think such updates in textbooks are necessary.

However, when it comes to students or children who are a bit older and are in higher classes, maybe their textbooks or study material could be updated and things that are more relevant could be added so that they can take more interest in their studies because we know how children, teenagers, are into reading comics, watching cartoons, playing video games, and stuff, so maybe incorporating such things in an educational way could increase their interest towards school and studies.

[Pablo-wood]

Making money is easier for the educated, but when they have the right education.

Making money isn't easy at all for the educated because they live on paycheck, I will say it's much more easier for business owners and innovators who run their own enterprise and control their cash flow. Education is just a key and truly it opens lots of opportunities but it's left for possessor of this key to determine what to do with it

Funny enough, attending a costly school doesn't guarantee one's success in life more than those who attend a less costly school. Being successful in life is not about the school one attended, because that school can't provide or have a job already waiting for a person before or after their graduation.

I just feel those who attended costly schools might have built enough connections for a more secured and well paid job compared to those from regular institutions who are mostly surrounded by average and poor citizens. In as much as the level of institution doesn't guarantee one's success, it still has an edge or advantage if well utilized.

[Cryptmuster]

Funny enough, attending a costly school doesn't guarantee one's success in life more than those who attend a less costly school. Being successful in life is not about the school one attended, because that school can't provide or have a job already waiting for a person before or after their graduation.

As we can tell, the reason why we go to school is for us to be impacted with knowledge, and the values that will help us in succeed in life. Any other aspect like attending to any financial heights in life is on us to achieve that, irrespective of the school attended.

If you compare prestigious educational institutions with more average ones, I agree that among students there is not always a big difference in the level of education. But if you take elite universities the difference becomes much more noticeable. And if you take the weakest ones you will also feel the difference because there students are often not required to put in much effort, and as a result their knowledge will be at a much lower level. But I think that in every class and in all educational institutions there will be students who strive more for knowledge, and those who are not interested at all. Later in life this will define a lot for them. And the stories where poor students become businessmen are not always true.

[BALIK]

Funny enough, attending a costly school doesn't guarantee one's success in life more than those who attend a less costly school. Being successful in life is not about the school one attended, because that school can't provide or have a job already waiting for a person before or after their graduation.

As we can tell, the reason why we go to school is for us to be impacted with knowledge, and the values that will help us in succeed in life. Any other aspect like attending to any financial heights in life is on us to achieve that, irrespective of the school attended.

Of course, attending a prestigious school or achieving a high level of education does not guarantee success. But that is not too difficult to understand because success is a combination of many factor, not dependent on or determined by a single factor.

Even if you are born into a wealthy family and inherit a large fortune. There is no guarantee you can maintain that wealth without competence and discipline, let alone that attending a prestigious school would guarantee success for you. But if you have the opportunity to study and graduate from a prestigious school, you will have a much higher chance of success than other

I do not believe that employers would reject you if your degree came from MIT or Stanford, and instead choose a candidate who graduated from a less prestigious domestic university

[Furball808]

And there are also those who are just playing around, aiming for a diploma as proof of their higher education, while gaining nothing in the way of knowledge and skills. This is something I regret, and it happens frequently, because so many people want to pursue higher education but are financially unable. Meanwhile, those who can afford it are just playing around.

Not everyone has the privilege of continuing their education at university, even if they are truly passionate about learning. So if we, or anyone else, are in a situation where we can afford it, we must make the most of it.

It is the reality of the world. The rich can afford to explore and really pursue what they want even if it is not practical in the real world and will not make a ton of money. But for the less fortunate, they have to think of what can make good money in the future if they go into college and that is if they go at all. Some go straight to working to support their families.

[Hewlet]

Education is considered a right of every citizen. But has education ever been accessible? Back then only the elite was able to study. Only a few have been able to read and be considered educated. If you are wealthy you can study and even though now education has become more accessible the truth is still only the wealthy can get highest quality of education. But now schools are selling education. They are promoting the culture and prestige of their schools.

How many persons and parents are really ready to get Thier wards to Become fully educated? You make education cheap and find out that it gets taken for granted and children becomes completely unserious because there parents aren't paying much for whatever knowledge they are getting.

To create a learning environment that's updated and conducive for learners requires money and to employ and take care of staff that will pass on that knowledge equally requires money. For that reason, it's ideal that the right premium is placed on education so those that knows the real need of getting educated are the ones that really goes after the best that education offers and they do so by paying for it. It's the least sacrifices you have to offer for you to get quality education.

[tbterryboy]

todays education system and its true that most people  getting knowledge to for getting certificated. Mostly institude should focous on meaningful learning but they focus on fees and attendance. In our school system after spending few years a student only memorized theories but the actual thing to learn is practical skills. Ane also hihger schools becomes more expensive and a poor person can not afford it . So many people just earn degrees and have no practical skills so they struggled to get jobs. So the learning point is that institute should focous to give practical trainings so the students Contribute there country through there skills.

This is what I am worried about, these days kids are not expected to actually "learn" they are shown how to be good workers. If you are a student, who does their homework, show up to school, then you are doing fine and that's it, even a stupid person gets to pass because tests are easy for those who actually try, don't have to be smart, just need to try.

Education is definitely important, I went to college too, graduated, barely graduated but did graduate, so I went to school as much as I have to, aside from mba or phd or whatever further you can go, I was done with college. Did it helped? Absolutely not, in fact, I have never once used my college degree to find any job, I might have been some dude from the street, would have been same, no business ever asked for it. So your degree, only matters as much as you use it.

[Dogedegen]

LOL I can picture an uneducated political person running the game and a lot of educated administrative services people under him taking orders. The first guy is a 8th fail while the officers are usually graduates. This is the case in many countries specially India.

Education was not supposed to be like this, it helps people learn basic things and eventually into professional courses they learn skills which help them get into jobs.

While you have a point there and this is something that is seen commonly, it does not describe much of relevance about education. The difference in the western world is that the person in charge will have many degrees and titles and act as an expert, but they will be often very incompetent. Education does not give any guarantees in terms of climbing ranks and careers. I guess we could say that is an issue but the problem is how do you really measure how educated someone is?  Papers and titles do not mean anything at all, there is an unimaginable distance between the top graduate and the lowest graduate of the same university class. Furthermore, there are some people that do well with studying for exams and university so they will have top marks but on the other hand in the practical work they are terrible, a disaster. So it is very unclear who should be placed in charge and why? It is quite more complicated that it sounds like when considered from the surface. Unfortunately this topic is not often given thought and people get positions due to corrupt reasons.

Education teaches a lot apart from the certificate you are going to get in the university, there are probably some other life lessons you are going to learn, you are going to learn from literally a lot of things and while most people are going to the university, they have their different purpose for doing that, some wants to obtain the certificate to enable them get a job in the company of their interest while some also want to know more about some areas of life and nature, to be able to also impact same knowledge to others.

Correct in theory, but completely wrong in practice for most of the cases. If you ask around the most successful people in the world, at least those that are honest will tell you that the university experience was a tragedy. They either were disappointed as most students were not smart and were partying a lot, or they quit the university completely finding it a waste of time. This is the most correct reflection of how most universities and programs are these days. If you learn something of those other skills that you say, it is most often because you didn't have some basic skills and not because the programs are great. It is a pretty sad state what is going on with the education system these days, everything from elementary school to university.

I think I get your point but to me, no one goes to school for the fact that they will get a job Like the moment you were born, your parents have already chosen that part of life for you.

Parents do not choose anything by birth here, that is not true. In most developed places in the world, it is the law that forces the parents to send the children to school. University is something else but for that they can't force you to do anything, so just because you do not have an established identity or a strong will don't claim that parents chose things for children as if children did not have any choice in the matter. This is not true in general.

[Fiasem20]

At present, if education is taken only for the purpose of obtaining a certificate, then there is no real value in that education. Educational institutions make so many rules that a student has to pass the academic period by following those rules. Educational institutions are made in such a way that money plays the main role. Only those who are rich in the society get the opportunity to pursue higher education. Education has now become a form of business. Only obtaining a degree is the main purpose of higher education. But I do not think that this education is of much use in the workplace. If educational institutions provide real education, then students can move forward in all areas of life with their education.

todays education system and its true that most people  getting knowledge to for getting certificated. Mostly institude should focous on meaningful learning but they focus on fees and attendance. In our school system after spending few years a student only memorized theories but the actual thing to learn is practical skills. Ane also hihger schools becomes more expensive and a poor person can not afford it . So many people just earn degrees and have no practical skills so they struggled to get jobs. So the learning point is that institute should focous to give practical trainings so the students Contribute there country through there skills.

Absolutely you’ve just said the reality.Instead of institutes to focus on improving the educational material which will create accurate results for those students whose discipline is on the basis of practical.During my days in the university,the practical hall used to be very stuffy due to lack of facilities to keep the environment conducive for students to acquire knowledge.Most institutes are way still backward because their curricula is outdated,in essence all these are challenges that needs to be addressed rather than extracting money from students who are financially instable.When these students aren’t able to acquire effective knowledge due to lack of facilities and outdated technology it would indeed affect the society.

[ZeeDizz]

Education is considered a right of every citizen. But has education ever been accessible? Back then only the elite was able to study. Only a few have been able to read and be considered educated. If you are wealthy you can study and even though now education has become more accessible the truth is still only the wealthy can get highest quality of education. But now schools are selling education. They are promoting the culture and prestige of their schools.

Because the truth is there usually are generalizations when it comes to these prestigious schools. For example, Harvard. Someone from harvard would be idolized and thought of someone who is intelligent and probably has a lot of connections. Harvard sells. When you get into these prestigious schools, more than education, you are also paying for the name of the school. But why are we paying for education? To make more money. Education is an investment wherein we expect huge returns after graduation.

Everything now is done with the purpose of making more money in the future. Are there people who go to school just simply wanting to learn? No. Most of the time, students consider the profit they will be making and the job they can get with the degrees they will get.


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Most people out here chasing pieces of paper instead of actually learning something useful. In crypto/tech especially you see folks with huge degrees who still can’t explain basics, and others without any diploma crushing it because they actually dug into the material. Real skill isn’t a stamp from some school, it’s what you can do with what you know.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

There is no better way than accepting this through facts that it's a commodity, though arguing education to be a right as it empowered individual who engaged fully both formal and informal is right on its part, but today mostly in some third world countries education is more of commodity rather than right because of the money involved which have even draw many attention of individual investors having their establishment of private institution of learning or training, no doubt educational system have shifted more in focus to be a commodity compared to the right involved.

[Emeraldo]

You're correct to some extent if  you say that education is some places is not quite accessible, but then I want to add that even if it looks accessible in certain areas, it is not a very quality one that the common man can get access to quality education in some regions are very expensive and needs you to be among the elite to be able to afford it. 
But if I see quality education as a commodity then I should be able to invest in it and hope that I get the best at the end of the day because for one to spend money on acquiring a quality education then you should be sure and certain that at the end of the day you can boost of the outcome comfortably.